(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best portable cassette players & recorders

Something like this? Not sure if it works, but remember looking into it myself and never bought it

Oh, I found it on amazon here

I have some old cassettes recorded from radio - 80s and 90s - of year end countdowns and other things. I converted those into mp3 with a thingy I got from Amazon

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01GI9791O

no, I found a classic one at a garage sale once. kinda like this one http://amzn.com/B0055L3BXM

last night i bought Ultimate Painting live at third man records, and i've listened to it three times already because it is so good. i also bought the whitney album on cassette just because, then this morning i bought a cassette player so i can actually listen to it

I don't know of any others. Maybe a cheaper classic portable style or Walk Man.

• HamiltonBuhl Classroom Cassette Player, 2 Station
  
• RadioShack CTR-121 Desktop Cassette Recorder
  
• Craig CS2303 Portable Cassette Player/Recorder
  
  An around 17" wide turntable is probably why receivers and dual cassette decks are also 17" wide.

It's one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KKIATEE/

I have never heard of any place that does that so your best bet would probably be this

I think this was the one I had.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Cassette-Sports-WalkMan-Player/dp/B0098S0KQY

You can go old school walkman style. http://www.amazon.com/Craig-Electronics-CS2301A-Personal-Headphones/dp/B0081I1UJS/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1453780040&sr=1-4&keywords=portable+cassette+player

Just plug a cable from the headphone jack to the aux.

http://www.amazon.com/AGPtek®-Portable-Cassette-Converter-Headphones/dp/B005NGJLYW

This one has a mic.The others seem to have built in mic's. Don't see any for more than twenty or thirty quid ? Trevi CR 410 Portable Cassette Recorder - Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0044AG2G8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_wmepybGRDFV3G

Here you go

Fuck Apple.

Is that signal from the External Speaker output on the side? Or the 1/4" headphone jack on the front?

https://www.amazon.ca/MARANTZ-PMD221-Portable-Cassette-Recorder/dp/B0002NPGB8

Neither will be at mic level, of course.

A machine of that vintage may require cleaning of either the jack contacts, switches, the switches inside the headphone jack, or the volume control. Those could all contribute to the intermittent operation.

Get an old-school single earphone for testing the machine's output before you start testing the adapter's operation.

Always keep your eye out for old, name-brand technology. Especially if it's new and still sealed.

Bought this Sony cassette voice recorder, new and sealed, off of Facebook for $20 last week. Just sold yesterday for $110.

The Sony Pressman is a little smaller than the Marantz, check it out.

Neither is mine.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-TCS-30D-Pressman-Cassette-Recording/dp/B00006IS5L

Get one of these!!

crap. sounds like it was recorded on one of these http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Tuff-Stuff-Recorder/dp/B00004SYNP

I came here looking for more negative comments. Ho hum..

here's the first fruit of a cursory amazon search for something better: http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Cassette-Converter-Player-Headphones/dp/B005NGJLYW/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1346866431&sr=8-6&keywords=tape+deck (10 bucks..)

>http://www.amazon.com/Ion-Tape2PC-USB-Cassette-Deck/dp/B000VG802I

problem solved.

Damn man, in 2007 everything I k we of could boot from USB, CD, DVD, but props on going old school. Next time, consider this:

http://www.amazon.com/Ion-Tape2PC-USB-Cassette-Deck/dp/B000VG802I

> Grew up with a sleep timer on my boombox (that still a term?) to listen to Hawks games while falling asleep as a kid

This was me and White Sox games for years. This gigantic ass boombox with the shitty sony walkman headphones listening to Hawk 100+ games a year.

I never found a 3-conductor (TRS) 2.5mm jack I liked much. And not because of the stereo imaging problem (shared return) but because they all seemed to be made poorly and either produced noisy connections (when you move it it makes scratchy noises) on day one or after a bit of use.

Although since Kenwood-style connectors used mono 2.5mms for decades before (used for some radio microphones and for cassette tape recorders with an electret microphone and pause switch), as seen on the side of this recorder perhaps it is possible to make a lasting, reliable 2.5mm jack.

As far as I know there were two reasons for Apple (and others) to switch from 2.5mm to 1/8". First is that 2.5mm jacks usually used their 3 conductors for mono audio out, mono mic in (with mic bias) and shared return. That meant no stereo audio out and since the iPhone was announced as being a music player that simply wouldn't do. So it had to have a 1/8" jack.

Second reason is related, but basically that since 2.5mm jacks were mono that meant there weren't any hi-fi 2.5mm earphones. So if Apple used a 1/8" jack you could use a lot of quality headphones with their phones (but not as many as if the hadn't recessed the jack, idiots!) and if they used a 2.5mm basically there would be only whatever Apple bundled.

Apple also used a 4-conductor (TRRS) 1/8" jack (CTIA config, see here) which meant that headphones made to work on their devices (including microphone) weren't 100% compatible with other 1/8" jacks. Take your iPhone earbuds and plug them in on a plane and you may find you get no audio (or close to it) because the 3-conductor jack on that plane contacts the 1,3,4 conductors on the AHJ (CTIA) jack on that page instead of the 2,3,4 conductors as would be needed to make the earbuds work. Your fancy noise cancelling Bose (or otherwise) headphones may come with a "swapping" adapter to convert between CTIA and OMTP to make your headphones work in places they otherwise wouldn't.

But I guess I digress too much. It's all a bit of a mess.